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Ten Tasty Tidbits about Turkish Delight by Pat Cook James 1:13-15 Well, you’ve been hearing me mention this for several weeks now, but I thought I’d spend some time tonight looking at the Chronicles of Narnia. This is still part of our series on Walking in the Spirit, as well. The more…   Narnia:
The Witch’s Spell by Mike Parry 2 Corinthians 2:11 Today we are continuing our sermon series, “Lessons from Narnia.”The land of Narnia is a magical land created by C. S. Lewis in the series, “The Chronicles of Narnia.”The first book, “The Lion, the Witch, and more…  The
Land Of Narnia by Jeff Strite Romans 8:19-25 On December 10th we’ve reserved the local movie theatre for a private viewing of “The Tale Of Narnia –The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”It’s the story of 4 children in war ravaged WWII London who are more…  Narnia:
Always Winter and Never Christmas by Vic Folkert Romans 8:19-21 Oxford, England, September 18, 1931. Two brilliant young professors walk in the darkness until 3:00 a.m. Jack and Tollers have become fast friends, drawn together by their love for obscure philosophers and ancient more…  Narnia
- Always Winter, Never Christmas by Robert Marsh Ephesians 2:12 This week a major motion picture is being released in the United States and around the world. It is the first in the “Chronicles of Narnia”series of films, entitled The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. The film is more…
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Night into LightAs I was growing up one of my favourite books was ‘The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.’I can’t wait for 9 December 2005 when the new film hits our screens! (UK) Early on in the book I remember that Lucy finds her way to a fantasy world called Narnia. She meets a fawn called Tumnus, and while Lucy and Tumnus talk in his cave, Tumnus explains that the reason it’s so cold and dreary is because of the evil Queen. “Who is she?”asks Lucy. Tumnus replies: “Why, it is she that has got all Narnia under her thumb. It’s she that makes it always winter. Always winter and never Christmas; think of that!” But there is Good News! All is not lost! Aslan (the Lion who created Narnia) returns to fight for the land and the people he loves. Aslan returns to Narnia to set free the people who live there. It’s a great story! I loved the book and I can’t wait for the film! But why did C.S. Lewis write it? He once said that it “is the best art form for something you have to say.” I know lots of people for whom life seems cold and dreary, always winter and never Christmas. …people for whom life seems dark and hopeless. I also know that Jesus is the Light of the world! On one occasion Jesus said, “I have come into the world as a light, so that no-one who believes in me should stay in darkness.”(John 12: 46) In Narnia, when Aslan was around, the snow began to melt, there were Christmas celebrations, winter turned to spring; laughter and fun returned to Narnia! SOURCE: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Contributed by: Warner Pidgeon Rumors
of a Wardrobe Perhaps you have heard of the upcoming movie The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. It’s a wonderful story written by CS Lewis, one of the sharpest Christian thinkers of the 20th century. The wardrobe mentioned in the title is a large walk-in closet in an old house owned by an old and quirky professor. Four children, taking refuge from the air raids in Britain in World War II, stumble upon this wardrobe. Now, from the outside it’s an ordinary-looking device for holding coats. However, as the children stumble upon its properties, they discover it’s actually a doorway to another world. This other world, called Narnia, is inhabited by all sorts of creatures, some good, some bad. But this world has a problem. Even though it’s technically owned by the great lion Aslan, it’s currently run by the White Witch. This witch keeps a tight reign over the creatures living in Narnia, and she keeps in the land in perpetual winter. What’s worse, it’s always winter, and never Christmas. It is a bleak place. By and by the children discover the roles they will have to play in this land. It’s a wonderful tale. Now, what’s neat about this story is that it reminds us that there is more to this world than what we can see, too. The Bible talks about the unseen world in 2 Corinthians 4:18. In fact, the unseen world is more real than what we see. In this unseen world, that few ever become aware of except in glimpses (Philip Yancey called them “rumors of another world”), there is a seriousness as well. Yes, Jesus reigns. But it’s an “already-but-not-yet”thing. Currently, this world is under ownership of the “the ruler of the kingdom of the air”, Satan. We all have roles to play in our part of the war. But few ever notice this reality, just like Narnia. Few are aware of the unseen. We enter the unseen by prayer, by absorbing the truths of the Bible, by looking around by how Jesus would see things. That is our wardrobe. SOURCE: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Contributed by: Pat Cook A
Wild GodC.S. Lewis’celebrated children’s book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, tells of the adventures of four children in the magical kingdom of Narnia. The story is fun, but it’s also an allegory of Christ and salvation, with Christ represented by the lion Aslan. When in Narnia, the children meet Mr and Mrs Beaver, who describe the mighty lion to them. "Is he a man?" asked Lucy. "Aslan a man!" said Mr Beaver sternly. Certainly not. I tell you he is King of the wood and the son of the great emperor-beyond-the-sea. Don’t you know who is the King of the Beasts? Aslan is a lion - the Lion, the great lion." "ooh!" said Susan, "I’d thought he was a man. Is he - quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion." "That you will, dearie, and no mistake" said Mrs Beaver; "if there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most or else just silly." "Then he isn’t safe?" said Lucy. "Safe?" said Mr Beaver; "don’t you hear what Mrs Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ’Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you." Meeting Aslan was a frightening experience for Lucy and her brothers. Meeting God is no different. Why you ask? Because of God’s Glory. SOURCE: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Contributed by: David Elvery It’s
Beginning to Feel A Lot Like NarniaIt may help us to meet a little girl named Lucy, a character in the delightful story by C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Lucy found herself in the magical land of Narnia in the company of a Faun named Mr. Tumnus, who told her about the White Witch. "The White Witch? Who is she?" Lucy asked. And Mr. Tumnus answered, "Why, it’s she that makes it always winter . . ." "How awful!" said Lucy, who became quite troubled and distressed about this White Witch. Later in the story, Lucy described the dreadful White Witch to her brother Edmund. "She is a perfecty terrible person," Lucy told Edmund. "And she has made a magic so that it is always winter in Narnia -- always winter and never Christmas." Young Lucy was understandably disturbed! Can you blame her? You and I would probably be just as disturbed if our land was in danger of losing Christmas and being stuck forever in frigid winter. Maybe that’s exactly our predicament! Maybe we live in a world more like the land of Narnia than we want to admit. Maybe, like Narnia, our world has a "White Witch" or two just waiting end our Christmas joy and leave us in perpetual winter. It may well be a kind of "White Witch" who robs us of our vision of a velvet, starry night in Bethlehem where a Holy Child was born, and leaves us with only frigid, dark, starless, winter nights. SOURCE: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Contributed by: Kathy Findley The
Great StoryOn the final page of the final book of The Chronicles of Narnia, some of the children who have been to Narnia lament that they once again must return to their homeland—the Shadow-Lands. But Aslan (the lion who represents Jesus) has the best news of all for them: [Aslan spoke to the children,] “You do not yet look so happy as I mean you to be.” Lucy said, “We’re so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.” “No fear of that,”said Aslan. “Have you not guessed?” Their hearts leaped and a wild hope rose from within them. “There was a real railway accident,”said Aslan softly. “Your father and mother and all of you are—as you used to call it in the Shadow-Lands—dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream has ended; this is morning.” And as he spoke he no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventure in Narnia had only been the cover and title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.SOURCE: The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis Contributed by: Jonathan McLeod 
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